I haven't gone down the Mandrake rabbit hole yet. But something tells me once I start my Paypal account and get a good amount of money in it, I'ma be joining you all in said hole.

im with you man, never ordered anything from them but thats not to say they dont tempt me

I was gonna order something from Mandarake, but they were charging double for what I wanted (6000 yen for Blade), so I resisted.

How is that double? His actual retail is 3990 via Tamashii.jp And besides that this thing was way under produced apparently. People are losing their shit over Blade in Japan right now and he's been selling like crazy from what I've read. I can understand the price jumps. And I promise I'm not saying this to sound like a dick, but if you wanted him at regular price there was a several month long window in which to pre-order him, or the bluefin release will be out next month for $38.99.

I figured he was 3400 *Shrugs*
And I didn't place a pre-order because I couldn't confirm at the time that I had the money to spare...

Then I say hold out for the Bluefin release old chap!

Seems to be my only option to pick him up without spending over $60.

Id say me and Den-O can say that if you dont have good control, you will go crazy on Mandarake... I myself have made at least 10 orders from them... :lol

Also check out JUNGLE if you wanna lose some money, Ive ordered from there more than Mandarake... :lol

All this freaking out over Blade just made me preorder him on Amazon. I don't know why he'd have been under produced (or how you guys can confirm that), but screw it... I really like the design enough that I'm making him the first SHF Rider I'll get from a show I haven't even properly watched.

Also, got in D-Arts Venusaur today.

Stand up my vanguard my trial deck today a day after I ordered it

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